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~ 4 / exhibit to collea people together to murder my repu tation. " Mean.'As against whom Mean tO avoid a oiscossion'which no person has a rteht to direct or to institute. In thiS Way it goes on. " Notwithstand ing the mean and malignant att'empts to stifle lite di ussierr. of the pres6nt . itnporiant quesi . ion by gearing down and defacing - he bills, a erowded . as'sernbl}, among w hum were several Noblemen and •seyeral Members of the House of Commons, attended, and attel: a very interesting debate, the opener was about to reply, when a' Gentle-, man - intimately and personakly concerned, enter— ed the ronin, and having pledged himself to attend 'on the next evening, - and either open the debate, or take a part in 'he discuSsion, the question was, with the consent - of a large majoritr. adjourned. Several important and extraordinary discitisures will be made in the' course of the evening ; and Lord Castlereagh, or his adherents, are peremptorily summoned to attend, _and prevent, if possible, his character' from being consigned to everlasting infamy •and diSgrace. The,Ls•atement respecting 'the execution of William Orr, ,in Ireland, under the Adtnini.tration 'of the Noble Lora, although inconte•tible evidenFe was laid before him, prov ing his innocence,- was' read from Mr. Finnerty's, letier, and executed in the audience visible emotiops of horror and disgust." LOrd Castlereagh is here-pe remptorily summoned t 6 at tend. Now, Gentlemen, look at t,,e extravagant power assumed by this mock tribunal ;• first, there is to - be fulminated against the person an attack 'upon his character,. by these un licensed persons assembled for the Most scandalous and peind purpose; for alit he persons assembled foi that purpose constitute a disorderly assembly; and are liable to be punished by the law, and then the party whose chat - after is to become the subject of anituathersion; is peremptorily summoned to ap pear before this self-castituted and disorderly assembly. Gentlemen, that is a sort of tyranny that I bake ever heard of as exercised in - the free land, in which I have the happiness to live. :I have heard of similar things . which hive been done in another country, by an odious assembly which we have all. beard of, denominated the Jacobin Assembly at Paris, where the fouridatiop for the overthrow of the monarchy, and of all civilized order in that country, and I may add also •in other" count' ies, was laid in the abused power and the „arrogant pre 'tensions of such Societies. Here is Lord Castle reagh " peremptorily summoned to attend,;and pre ve-nt, if possible, Its charther from being consigned to eVeilasiing infimy and disgrace."' Is not this libellous ? If it be not, let the name of libel be blotted out of our books. L , t the thing be consi dered no longer a subject of discussion, or a matter Of legal contempiation in this country, if a man may in this manner- be surnitioned at the peril of infamy and disgrace upon a charge like this, to pre sent himself bef , re such a judicature. Gentlemen, after this summonS, we come to what is considered as the trial, and then it is saidL-" Last . Monday,. atier two evenings discussion, a crowded asoeilib.ly unaturnotisly, deciord," (1 shoOld have ex pected such a . sort of decision in such a place, and so convened and inflamed)," that Lord Castlereagh's conuot towards Mr. Finnerty ought to be reprobated as afficigrant infringewelit upon the.liberty'of a Bri tish su b je c t , an d a e.wardlyaet of oppression against an innocent individual.' Then ii is said, "lii consequene of Mr. Finnerty. being detained at the House of Commons, he was unable to attend until late in the evening, When; to the universal sa tistactiOn of a most respettante audience, he entered the room and delivered a tuost animated statement of the proceedings at Walch7ren and the conduct of Lord Castlereagh. It is unnecessary to add, that Mr., Finnerty experienced the most flattering and une quivocal proofs of public approbation, while, on the contrry, not a hand was held up in his Lordship's de. fence. Thus has been furnished, a memorable and arrik log instiice of t he folly and inutility of attempting at least in this country, to o;, press dud bear do nan innocent individual." I think that is a pretty round all*gatinn, that such an attempt had been made to oppress and, bear down an innocent individual ".By , this discussion virtue. and independence," • I pre.. mne, in the person of Mr. Finnerty, " have re ceived 'their just and adequite reward, while pride and arrogance," I must-collect trom the chtext in the person of Lor4 Castlereagh, " have been hum bled to,ibe dust—The Managers enjoy a-heart felt satisfaction in thus announcing the decision, and led conscious that they have dope their = duty." This is the record pt the judgmenr on the unanimous de cision of this respectale and well-collected assem bly. Gentlemen . , you have been 'told by the Learned Advoca'e for the defendant, that a professor, whore forgOt, has said, that the great and charac teristic blessing of this country was not that we had free laws or a Parliament of wisdom to make them, but that we lia4 theSe sort of subordinate Parlia ments—these debating societies. Upon my word that leiirned' professor has taken a very imperfect measure of_ the liberties , of this country, or the means by which those liberties and laws are pre served. I am,:in illy station, as much a friend to freedom of ~tlisCpssiop and to fair delib.era- tion upon all subjects which it behoves the sub , je‘ct, for the preservation of his freedom, for the info; 'natio() of his iniod, or for the performance of his duties, to discuss and deliberate upon, as any man wfio ever Sat in tlfis place. Unequal as I may be to my piedecesso►s in' other 'respects, in that 1 am equal to any of them, in having an ardent love fur the constitutional liberties of my county. But I can= not conceive any thing so injurious - to, either as to 'assist iu giving effect to, or is suffering to go un punished when - they exist—those' licentious attacks . upon' the happiness of individuals, and upon the se curity of ihe State. The freedom of the, press is se cured ; by a'll)vving every man 'to publish, without the , ,PreviOus contrtiul of a licenset, that which in his - - lodgment _he shall think 'fit to communicate to the pudic, but he does it at his.peril, being responsible to indi',iduals - whom he may injure, or to the pub : lic whose peaCe he May disturb. Subje6t_to that le- spot.sibi:ity, and io that risk, every man may pub lish what he 'pleases. No attempt has ever been made in-the times in which I have had the happi neis to live, upon that liberty so 'exercised in the first iustance, by publishing withoct the controul of e licenser ; but, it' every man was to publish with . a - suggest, or what his falsehood might dire& to be saidio the prejudice:of another, no man would have his good lame, diost estimable blessing in in any degree of security. • Gentlemen--In the diScharge of my duty, I am required to give you my opiniOn upon' this case. If I Were to state a donbt, it would be to abandon one's understanding. Ido with the • most perfect confi dence,pronounce to you, that' it is a most scandal ous and infamous ItOcl, and I have no doubt, that in-the discharge of your duty you will come to the same conclusion, and swill thereby be the means of resisting the evils by which we are surrounded and oppressed.—The Jury immediately pronounced the r defendant Guilly. BISHOP OF LONDON'S COURT, DOCTOR'S COM MONS, luLy zo. TAUNTON- V. TAUNTON. 'This was a cause of Divorce, or Separation from. bed, board, and mutual cohabitation, brought by Mr. Taunton, a Solicitor, in Essex-street, in the Strand, against Mrs. Taunton, his . vvifv,. byp-ason of Adultery, alleged to have been committed with Wyborne, Esq: a Barrister; . It appeared from the pleadings and evidence-pro -duced.in the cause, that a marriage was sOlemnited between the parties on the t3thJuly, 1803, and that they had issue by that marriage three children ; that they lived and .cohabited together as man and ,wife e for some years, and their eonduct.towards ea c h her during that period was of the most affectionate kind, until an unfortunate intimacy took place ,between Mr. Taunton and Mr. W ) borne, which arose from their professional employments : that atter their re turn fronv Broadstairs, where ho'lh families 'had agreed mutually to resat, Mr. Tiitmion wished his _wile to drop the acquaintance, not-on aceount 'of any suspicion, on hi, part, of any crimin •l• conr•e"Ction subsisting between his wife and Mr. _Wy ,, orne, but that of its being attended with o;nsi.l-Ikine The libel further pleaded, that soon xt , -r , vards Mr. W. took an unfurnished lodging in Old Boswell-Court, Carey-street,,. in the na'ne of JoGes; where Mrs. Taunton resorted. to, to meet Ai. W. and at other trines when Mr. W. kileA tha t Mr. 12 , unton was -absent on business, he used to take Cie opportunity of going to Mr. Taunton's house, 'where he and Mrs. Taunton continued in a tooth alone together, until they expected the rgturn of - Mr.-Taunton. The libel also pleaded a verdi& obtained against 'Mr. Wy born, in the Com Mon LAW COW t,, damages 80001.. On the part of Mrs. Taunton, it was contended, that the evidence was qfthite'with respect to the iden tity of the, parties. The Learned Judge (Sir W, Scott) was of opinion, that the rad of adultery was clearly established, and accordingly pronounced for the remedy which the husband pray6d. MILES V. MILES. This was also a suit of the like description, pio moted by Lady Betty,Mtles against Sir Jonath an. Miles, her husband, by reason of cruelty and adul tery. . The Learned Judge in this case was so fully satis fied from the et iiience, , tbat the tact eat adultery 'A- as clearly established against the husband, that t , e pro nounced for-the sepration prayed, end a,lotted the .wife 1501.15 . 61 4- annum, until tile question of Alimony was decided. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 17.. LUPTON V. wESTON. This was an "at:tion - brought by the plaintiff, as I executor. to Mrs. Anne Stuck., It appeared that Mrs. Shick had a house and .hop in Little Guild ; ford-street, and had taken the defendant in as a lodger in the year 1808, where he remained for fiftevn months 7 `An agreement had beep entered into • into between Mr. Weston, who is an eminent bricktnaker; and Mrs: Shick, by Which the for : agreed to pay. 30s. per week f..r,his' board and lodging, according to which stipulation 351. was now due ;- to recover which the preset - it anion was brought. The defence set up was, that Mrs. Shirk was,in fact the mistress of Weston ; that she went by his name.; and lived on, terms wit: bun which render ed the presents contraa highly im,rohible. Mary Roche, the first witness called, said she had lodged in ,the house with Mts. Shick and Weston, -and was present at the ,agreement for the 30s. a week. She admitted that Mrs. Shick Went by the name of Weston, because she was, a cousin to the defendant. She did not pass,for his wife, nor did she ever- see Weston•take improper liberties with her. Mrs. S. sometimes slept out, but she did not know that ,she slept with Weston. Weston had a house at the bottom of . Gay's Inn-lane, when he lodged Witth Mrs. S. She had seen Weston at din ner; he ate no meat, but dined upon fowls andrala . bits. Mrs. S. went by the name of Weston before the defendant came to lodge in the house. , , Grace - Christie knew Weston since 1792 ; he lodged with her, and MrS. 'Weston came often there, and passed fOr his wife. She had a child by Weston in the year.l7Bo. Mrs. Bishop had Weston as a lodger with her from 1807 to 1809. Mrs. Shick had .called often to see him, and remained a week together in his apartments—she went by, the name of Weston. Mr. Field, an attorney, defended an action once for Mrs. S. in which she was successful there were some extra Costs to pay,Which were defrayed by the defendant. Chief Justice MANSFIELD recapitulated the evi dence, and. Commented •on the singularity of the lady's going by the name of Weston ; she could have'no other cause,for it than to account for the fa miliarity with which she lived with the defendant, and iMpose herself on the world is his wife. It was for the Jury to consider whether it was probable Wt St on, who had an house of his own in Gray's Inn-lane, would take a lodging in a street - so near as little Guildford-street, and whether it was not likely lie visited it merely is an house of pleasure. If.sult a stipulation for such - a purpose was made between the parties, it was nullin- itself . , because m3de for an if legal purpose. The Jury, however, had to consider whether the first witness was to be credited under the existing circumstances, - and whether it was pro bable that_any such agreement had taken place.— , Verdia for the defendant. The cases yesterday were very uninteresting- here. The only one of any moment was that of John Weaver, for a riot and assault. Our readers recoile& the' disturbances, that took place near Portmati-square,Barracksi between the Life Guardsmen quartered there and a mob of people, who assaulted and insulted them, in conse quence of the accidents that so fatally 11 ., ppened on the day that Sir Francis Burden wars conveyed a pri soner to -the Tower. Thii prosecution originated out of those disturbances., .The defendant had as some of the soldiers,...in common with others of the niob, who were pelting Oem with stones and brick-bats, and insulting them with the epi , (bets of '° Piccadilly Butchers," " Living LObsters," &c. till the riot became so serious . as to endanger the not only of the soldiers there, but of . ,many other persons. • This was proved by Taylor, one of the Life Guards, and by others. . , The detehdant endeSvoured by hiS witnesses to shew that he.was mistaken for another person, and that lie never did corninit any,outrage upon the sot-. diery. .In this, however, ne..failed; for after the. Gentleman Who presided instead of Me. IN.G (Mr. WATSON), had summed. up the evidence, whit.ll he did with. great precision, making suitable comments thereon, the Jury, withoutretiring, found the defendant Guilty. THE KING V. MADDOCKS AND SAUNDERS. ' This was an indictment for an assault, on the pro secution of AndreW McMahon, Esq . '''. an Irish Bar rister, who deposed that the detOdant, • Maddocks, had assaulted him in a ferocious manner, aided by the oilier defendant and iliree other persons.—After heArii,g the 'evidence, and an eloquent speech from 'Mr. Reynolds for Mr. M`Mahon, against an- ingeni on;i'address froM Mr. Gleed on - behalf of the deten dams, and a full charge from Mr. MAINWARING, to e Jury 16und the detendants , Guill. They were then sentenced to pay a fine of 201. each. -One hundred and three` prisoners are entered for trial on the Newgate Calendar, at the present Old. Bailey . Sessions : few of the offences, however, are very atrocious. - There is one indictment for man 81,iughter, two for bigamy, two for returning frOm transportation before the expiration of the allotted 'lt-nod, and one for arson .and robbery. There are also a few for highway robbery, burglary, and horse stealm2). The remainder are petty offences— Sunday se'noight, about six o'clock,' the large venerable, oak, which for ages had stood between, the Bridge and, the Hall, in Costessey-park, Nor folk, fell .0 the ground with a cras h th at was heard all over tLe village. All apprehensions respeaing the - ensuing.haryest vare now removed, acid it• is 'generally understoOd that it will prose a fair average crcip. .The Oats.in, Kent and the adjacent Ruts or'Sussex are abundant, and the Barleys have , n,,w assumed a favourable -ap pearance. . , betters from Spain state, tliat tlie French Govern men t at Madrid has sold, by a public sale, the estates of all the Spanish Grandees, and' Other great landed proprietors whOlhave emigated to Cadiz, and adhere to the cause of FERDINAND VII. • It is now geoeraly, understood thht the Privy Council at the Cockpit hive t*orted to the KtNG their opinion upon the late application to his MA• JESTY in Council for a Charter of Incorporation, in order to establish a new Theatt,.!, that they cannot advise his MAJESTY to yield to such application, be cause it would put the, parties upon grounds of greatet ad►antages than those'attached to the exist ing News; which would be unjust to the interests secured under those Patents ; and as to the 'sugges tion of resorting for such a purpose to the authority of what is called the.Dormant•Pateht, they are of opinion'that that idea cannot be carried into effe6l; because, for reasons which, they stale, that Patent h s become invalid. As to•the expediency; or not, of a third Theatre, to meet the increased population of the metropolis, khe Privy Council. leave the point altogether to his MAJEsTO - wisdorn to decide.-• The result of this Report, upon the whole, is, that 'a new additional Theatre is required, it must be under the authority of a new Grant from the Crown, and that too of no greater extent of powers than '►hose of the Patent's of-the Thuatres of Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane._ On Wednesday the 4th inst. Miss an in teresting young woman from ‘Crail, was lodged in the gaol of Cupai Fife, upon a . charge of having poisoned her:mother., The poison, a rarge quantity of arsenic, was giVen ainotigSt tea, and the un-. fortunate woman.Aurvived the 'swallowing of it only , a few, hours. The catastrophe excited the greatest grief and alarm.' There were several lodgers in the house' for sea-bathing, to whom, it may well be supposed, the horior•of the scene, added' to the state of uncertainty how • far the •etfeas of the poison might extend, Were most"dis tressing. It is undersood that the unhappy: young Woman is.stibjeti to periodical fits of insanity ;. pnd no other suspicion can be entettained than th a t it was in one of those fits. she perpetrated the dreadful att.. When in 'sound mind, she was 'remarkably dutiful and attached to her parent. PICKPOCKETS. —it was anticipated that many gangs of daring pickpockets would resort to Dept ford, at the launch of the ROYal Charlotte on Tues day ; the Commissioners of the Yard, therefore, applied at the Public Office, Bow:street, 'for some assistance, and in consequence Clark, and a party of the ‘Patrole than and , apprehended in the yard no less than eleven well 'known pickpockets, 'and took them before Mr. GoonitEW, the aative Magistrate of . Deptford, .who sent seven of them On: board toe tender. The notorious Bill Soames was seen in :the Yard,. but in the , crowd escaped the vigilance of the officers. On the opposite shore, in the neighboarhood of Black wall, there . were seve ral numerotts gangs, who openly turned the pock ets inside out of a number of respeciable people, without the least interruption. - 4411 - Piz rya. --calvassuir, JULY tg. . . . Arrived—the Angmoria; Gripps, Favourite, Gray, WiL hiairl, Noffinesi and Nancy, Samson, from Oporto; and the Isla, Nattham, from Lisbon. Sailed —the Pocahuntes, Tompkins, for Philadelphia. ULD BAILEY. THIRD DAT-FRIDAY, JULY O. , • Four JGurneymrn rally named Gel dart, Bradbee, Little, and . /khans,. employed at. The Day newspaper.office, ‘4 ere brouglu They bad, been apprehended 'in: consequeuct r• a bill of indictment ha‘ mg been . f(.)und tri for conspiring to seduce the Prima - ,a' Ihe Time, otticeto quit their situations. The, p d not guilty , and vk ere committed to. Neg: at at of, bail. Three othe'r Printers, named ax, Howlett and Paskirs,,-lately engaged at- Die Times ()thee, '+e•e next brought to4lie bar to plead ru an kid!, en t. found against them for conspiracy, I committed for the same reason. Joseph Austin was indicted on a' charge of disony in sefting file to the house of Mrs. Haimah Tit • son, of Sackville-street, St. James's paris,', t1: 0 17th of June last,. witll.intent to d stro) the S..ne. It appeared - twin the statement of Counsel, a., stip potted by the evidence, that the prisoner wits d let in the service of, Andrew Ileum who - lodged in the house of Mrs. Thompson, and occupied her first 'floor. ' The pi isotir was in his . service about thirteen months. On the minting of the 16th of June, Mr. Tuflort sent' it, pi- Soner to.a Banker's in Pall- Mall, for payment ~1 a draft for tool, which theptisoner brought 6) him ill 50 notes, for two pounds each, 47 of which he t ut into his portable writing desk on his . tch he then locked. , He then wont and did return to his lodgin4s until the next ITIG11131;g, he found-his apartments had been set o n tire, utS writing desk broken olirn, and his mites-gone. Mrs. Thompson, the lady of the house, had gone to bed about two o'clock in the morning, and t # prisoner had gone u 7 to bed before her, and at a n or tour in the wonting she was awaked by a smoke in the hou,e. Her apartnenis were ot, the second floor; she_ awakened her dauglitr, who siepL with her; she immediately got up and hip down tO the first floor, opened the dipir , g—room, - and the smoke-burst out on her in gteai quantry; b u t blie sap in the fuolll no light or fimne, she unagint.cl 11 10 smoke came from a public-house next ; () 11 turning rocind again, she'vrceived ihe prisAler 01 1 the second floor stairs,,a few steps behind her, and saw 'her daughter also ,coming nowt) stairs. Sliel could nut tell whether the prisoner was' with of.. without his;clot hes as she h was mucalar.oed, fate alarm - of fire was .given to .some firemen who wet'' passing with an engine..to - extinguish borne - other fire, and they came in. She assisted in serving dicta With water, and the flames in Mr. Tutton's to i" were got under. When the firemen,, of whota thete were, three, 'proceeded -into the. room; they found - . it full Of smoke. :They immediately 'thte , s r several buckets of water on alielloo), end oho on a sofa in the room, from which the fire appeard tO proceed, and extinguished it; .and after titrowiq: open the w;ndows arid cleating the apartment ot smoke, 'she pulled up, the carpet, and tOund boards of the floor, about the cell , re, burnt. through? and that the fire proceeded front Vetween-the ccihug el the room below and thatmoment. O n e of tt 6 men perceived the prisoner with a 'writing-box his hands, which appeared to have ,the binges ao u the catch - of the lock broken. They perceiVed was not opened by the effects of fire, but they cell : not tell whether-at might not•have been opened Pi the cited of a fall. None of I taeni;. how ever, rtf" collected to have heard any thing tall in the rooll' whilst they were there: . • After several witnesses were. examined ; . the Fr i ; soner in his defence, asserted. his innocence, acknoVledged the boxes found ou Mr. Crap's le"' to have been thrown there by him, as c o ntainibt the cloathi of himself and his wife,. on the fir alarm of fire; and said, when he first entered 111 d 6 - room, after the fire was extinguished, he f o und .desk lying open upon the, flour with the hinge 40 lock . brokenl• • Colonel Wood, with whom he had lived se%T t r i , months; the. Hon. George Irvin, with whoto had lived thirteen months ; Mr. Lines VII ie Steward to Lord Grenville, wlkthe.,prisoner 1 0 0 been seven months as u nde r b u tl er ; and. above.% other respectable persons, appeared, and gave hi~l~ excellent character. • Sir ALLAN CEIAMBRE then summed up the. e' l dence for the Jury, wh o , atter 'Living retired .7 1 t three quarters of an hour, ret uine d a verdict of . 0° Guilty. This excited, from a number of persims in WI: galleries, such disorderly bursts., of applause, ti ) ,! , , the Court immediately ord e r e d- the galleries 1 0 cleared. BIRY Ils - • • On Thursday last, the Lady of Edward Marjoriba ll Esq. of Wimp()le-street, of a Son. . On Friday the 13th inst. at, his houip in Camden-ITP°' Bath, the Lady of William Scott, Esq. of a Daughter. 11141tRI1i. On Wednesday, at Camberwell Church, Mr. James Sn ii . v i of the Kent -road, to Miss Mary. Ann Cherer, da:411 10 the late Mr. Cherer, of the Post-Mike. On :l'hu rAot 4 rsday list - , at Kingsto n - u p on -Th ames, (f Henry Lidgbird late - of His Majesty' s ship (;41"'•;4‘,.• to Aline Georgiana Harriette, eldea d a U g h ter of Nlajt:l(4o neral Gabriel Johnston, late o f t h e ' H on. t h e NE as t- Company's service. • Dmp. On the 9th inst. in -Paradise row, Ch e l s e a , Mrs. Franc e • Helen Smith, aged 79 years. ic; On Sunday morning last, at hisintigings in Exeter, tain Hamilton, of the East Kent Militia. 140' On Monday last, at her house i n N ott i ng ha m-p l ac e, 4 Martha ky ley, . aged 76. • ' On Thursday last, at Tunbridge Wells, Lieutenant VT , ma's Henry Lloyd; K. N. third s o n o f t h e lat e F ranc i s 1 ,14) : Esq. of Doingay, in the County of Aflontgornery. • ,- r c.• Yesterday, at her house at T o tte n h am , M rs. Mildred, lief of the tate Daniel Mildred, Esq. t The same day, atter a short illness, Mr. John Bownia- , Mansel-street, Sugar-refiner. On the zoth inst. 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